How to format your references using the International Cancer Conference Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Cancer Conference Journal. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Humphries C (2013) Latency: A sleeping giant. Nature 502:S14-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Hammock EAD, Young LJ (2005) Microsatellite instability generates diversity in brain and sociobehavioral traits. Science 308:1630–1634

A journal article with 3 authors

Bibby TS, Nield J, Barber J (2001) Iron deficiency induces the formation of an antenna ring around trimeric photosystem I in cyanobacteria. Nature 412:743–745

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tai K, Houlahan TJ Jr, Eden JG, Dillon SJ (2013) Integration of microplasma with transmission electron microscopy: Real-time observation of gold sputtering and island formation. Sci Rep 3:1325

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Crichton RR, Ward RJ (2006) Metal-based Neurodegeneration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Levine M (2007) Algebraic Cobordism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Graepel R, Bodkin JV, Brain SD (2010) Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and the Sensory Neurovascular Component. In: Sauer H, Shah AM, Laurindo FRM (eds) Studies on Cardiovascular Disorders. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 87–107

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Cancer Conference Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Discover Secret To Butterfly’s Invisible Wings. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/invisible-butterflies/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1998) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard--Model Year 2000. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tabone B (2013) Knowledge and awareness of the Female Athlete Triad among female collegiate athletes at California State University, Long Beach. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Williams J (2017) Where Charlotte and Jane Meet. New York Times BR4

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Cancer Conference Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Canc. Conf. J.
ISSN (online)	2192-3183
Scope